"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

“I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk”

Source : Twitter post from May 16, 2016

“As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.”

Source : Karl Mannheim (2013). “Ideology and Utopia”, p.68, Routledge

“I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”

“Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.”

“Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.”

Source : "Oh, steer my Bark to Erin's Isle". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

“I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.”

“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.”

Source : Source: muse.jhu.edu

“My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?”